[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 151 (2005), Part 19]
[Senate]
[Page 26256]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                 EXTENSION OF A WATER SERVICE CONTRACT

  The bill (S. 891) to extend the water service contract for the 
Ainsworth Unit, Sandhills Division, Pick-Sloan Missouri Basin Program, 
Nebraska, was read the third time and passed, as follows:

                                 S. 891

       Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of 
     the United States of America in Congress assembled,

     SECTION 1. AINSWORTH UNIT, SANDHILLS DIVISION, PICK-SLOAN 
                   MISSOURI BASIN PROGRAM.

       (a) In General.--The Secretary of the Interior shall extend 
     for the period described in subsection (b) the water service 
     contract for the Ainsworth unit, Sandhills Division, Pick-
     Sloan Missouri Basin Program, Nebraska, consisting of--
       (1) the water service contract entered into by the 
     Secretary of the Interior under--
       (A) section 9(e) of the Reclamation Project Act of 1939 (43 
     U.S.C. 485h(e));
       (B) section 9(c) of the Act of December 22, 1944 (58 Stat. 
     887, chapter 665);
       (C) the Act of August 21, 1954 (68 Stat. 757, chapter 781); 
     and
       (D) the Act of May 18, 1956 (70 Stat. 160, chapter 285); 
     and
       (2) the water service contract for the set project located 
     in Cherry, Brown, and Rock Counties, Nebraska, for the use of 
     a part of the waters of the Snake River, a tributary of the 
     Niobrara River.
       (b) Period of Extension.--The water service contract 
     described in subsection (a) shall be extended for 4 years 
     after the date on which the contract expires under the water 
     service contract and law in existence before the date of 
     enactment of this Act.

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